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Is It Cost-Effective To Make Pantry Staples Yourself?

We love offering DIY recipes — recipes for things like butter, instant oatmeal, chocolate pudding, yellow cake, crackers and jam. You can see a huge list of all our DIY recipes here. But is it m...

The Turnip Problem: Using Up the Last Winter Vegetables

Do you have a CSA? Do you run into the "turnip problem" in late winter and early spring? Early spring is especially maddening, when green things are coming up all around, but there are still a few wee...

Blogging Slate: Are You Sick of the Kiddie Foodie Movement?

There is an interesting article by Regina Schrambling over at Slate.com, all about the growing number of precocious children being billed as celebrity-chefs-in-the-making. We're not talking about intr...

What Makes a Cookie a Cookie? Three Food Writers Discuss

What is the state of the American cookie? Three food writers, Dorie Greenspan, David Leibovitz, and Sara Dickerman discuss the definition of a cookie, what makes a cookie American, and chunky vs. thin...

Why Food Writers Hate Thanksgiving

Did you read Regina Schrambling's rant against Thanksgiving writing and news coverage over at Slate? We did, and we think it's hilarious (and more than a little true). Her basic premise is that it's...

Twelve Steps To a Better Pasta Salad

Pasta salad is often the ugly stepsister at a summer cookout. Too greasy, too bland, too mushy, too limp. We spent years passing swiftly by the pasta salads at our family's cookout buffets. But Sara D...